The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Enugu State Branch, has inaugurated Doctors’ Intelligent Digital Identity Card Management Service in Enugu State meant to check activities of medical quacks with the state.
The NMA unveiled over 1,000 intelligent digital identity cards to be distributed to its members in Enugu State free.
Speaking at the unveiling on Tuesday in Enugu, the state Commissioner for Health, Dr Ikechukwu Obi, said that the intelligent systems put in place by NMA would eliminate activities of quacks in the medical profession.
Obi said that elimination of quacks would guarantee quality medical services to the people.
Professor Obinna Onodugo, Chief Medical Director of University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozalla, said that the digital system marks a mile stone in the upgrade of medical services in the state and country at large.
Onodugo said that his teaching hospital would key into the platform to see to a sanitised medical profession.
Dr Monday Igwe, Medical Director of Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu, applauded the NMA for using technology and evidence-based approaches to sort out challenges of the association.
In a goodwill message, the state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr Mohammed Aliyu, said that the police was ever ready to assist the NMA flush out quacks in the system.
Earlier, Dr Jude Onyia, Chairman of NMA Enugu State Branch, said that the digital intelligent identity card and other digital electronic platforms would eliminate quacks in the medical profession in the state.
According to him, the activities of quacks have led to some many deaths and low healthcare delivery especially in the hinterland and remote areas of the state, but with the digital and intelligent identity card and the assistance of security agencies will rid the state of quack doctors.
